Hi all, I will in Edinburgh for 4 days this June. One major reason I want to revisit Edinburgh is because of Case Histories and a certain brilliant actor.
I am also a Sherlock fan and there is a good website detailing Sherlock locations in London and beyond - places you can visit in connection with the show.
How about Case Histories? Anyone know of any place I should visit?

CH, steps like those are all over the place. I took a pic of the Guthrie steps because I'd been assured that they appeared in the mini North and South. These steps look less steep than others I recall. In any case, I posted the pic with Jason and pooch in my facebook page asking if anyone could identify them.

As for the second pic, he might just be standing in front of a backdrop.

The steps with the dog look like the ones that lead from beside the Bank of Scotland headquarters at the top of The Mound down to Market St. They are called The News Steps (because the building next to them used to be a newspaper office). I am not 100% sure they are the ones, but the big clue for me is that the steps are wide enough to have a central handrail. There are lots of steps in Edinburgh, as the place is very hilly.

Your second link gives loads of photos! If you mean the one with the clock tower and castle behind Jackson, it is taken from Calton Hill (which has the Nelson Monument with the time ball controlling the castle's One O'Clock Gun, a building that looks like an unfinished Parthenon, and an old observatory). The clock tower is the Balmoral Hotel next to Waverley Station. The hotel used to be called the North British Hotel, and was owned by the railway company. Traditionally the clock is 3 min fast to allow people to catch their trains.

Fruitbat: North and South locations are on my to do list. Can you imagine JI playing Mr. Thornton??

Servalan: News Steps? OK, I've got to see those! And yes, with my second link, I meant the one with the clock tower and castle.
Carton Hill – North and South shot from there also.
I will be staying near Waverley Station. Interesting tidbit about the clock!

Chari910: Victoria Street here I come.

Please let me know if anything relevant comes up in connection with Series 2.

Another location is the building they use for the police HQ where Louise works. It's actually Edinburgh City Council's offices on Market St, behind Waverley Station. Through its windows on interior shots you can see the Balmoral Hotel clock. IRL the building has a weird piece of art outside, a man standing on top of a piece of freestanding scaffolding - so you will know that's the right building. The best view of it is from Jeffrey St, which forks off from Market St towards the Royal Mile.

As Char says, Jackson's office is on Victoria St, which is a steep hill down to the Grassmarket from George IV Bridge. If you are standing at the top of the hill, the office is on the LHS. Shots in series 1 played with the location, showing Phil Davies walking to it on the upper level above the street on the RHS, which is actually opposite the office location as shown by the view through the office window.

Go and see the pandas in the zoo! Very cute even when asleep, which they inevitably will be. I was last up when they were filming, but I couldn't impose my fan girling on my friend. It is the most beautiful and beguilingly intimate city. And, yes, there are a lot of steps, especially in the Old Town.

The cafe with lots of plants, where Jackson met up with the sisters in the first episode, was actually one of the Royal Botanic Gardens glasshouses - I believe it was the one where you now enter and pay for the glasshouse tour (the actual gardens of the Botanics are free - and indeed years ago the glasshouses were free too). It used to be the Palm House, but some of the trees got too big and had to be cut down. You can go into the very first part without paying. If you like gardens, the Botanics is a lovely place on a fine day. You might even see a wedding there!

Re the pandas - I have to admit I haven't been to the zoo since they arrived, mainly because the zoo is now so expensive. But I have seen real live pandas, in San Diego Zoo, before the Edinburgh ones arrived.

servalan wrote:
Your second link gives loads of photos! If you mean the one with the clock tower and castle behind Jackson, it is taken from Calton Hill (which has the Nelson Monument with the time ball controlling the castle's One O'Clock Gun, a building that looks like an unfinished Parthenon, and an old observatory).

HTH.

How did I miss this? I loved Calton Hill. I shall bookmark this thread in case I ever get to Edinburgh again.

It looks like you've cracked the steps, CaseHistories. Well done. The surrounding buildings all look right, and the Vennel leads into a normal street at the top, where you can see the row of houses at the back of the photo. If you google for other photos of The Vennel, it all looks good. The Vennel goes from one end of the Grassmarket to Heriot Place, next to George Heriot's School. I think the photo was taken near the top, as there are a lot of "landings" along the steps.

The last episode had some filming in North Queensferry, north of the Forth.